The weather forecast for the next week was light southerlies. Ideal weather for me to show Barry, my favorite spots in The WhitsundaysThe wind was 10kts from dead astern, so we wing-on-winged the Screecher and the Continue Reading
4 years ago, my good friend Barry and I were “bachelor” sailing around New Caledonia. An adventure I covered in 2 previous blog posts Iles Loyaute (The Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia) – Sailing Logic Continue Reading
(Rather than my usual homogenate of my blog posts been a multitude of topics, I felt that my experience sailing north with Barry needed to be a stand alone, so I will do a couple of short blog post, as a preamble) Continue Reading
My blogging has evolved from being a record of my sailing experiences, too including my on-land travels and my family photos to share with family and friends. I had a lot of lovely experiences with my family over Continue Reading
This is the second part of my blogging of Logic‘s sail down from Cairns to Brisbane. The first part has us at day 3 of a 5 day stay in the Mackay Marina, while we waited for a southerly blow to go over and the Continue Reading
The cyclone season is approaching, time to sail Logic south, to get away from the cyclones. Via this blog site, a few months previously I was approached by Len, who is in the process of buying a sister-ship to Continue Reading
A priority for me sailing north, is to get to Lizard Island. It can be a “lobster trap”, very easy to get to with the prevailing South Easterlies tradewind, blowing up the Queensland Coast, and then a Continue Reading
The Pandemic has been a significant positive for me. Instead of cruising the South Pacific Islands, I have been able to watch my grandson Louis (Lou-ie) grow up. I sailed north from Brisbane in March, with 3, 5-day Continue Reading
Firstly a bit of geography. The depth of the water for 30-100 miles off most of the Queensland Coast is 30-50mts, then it comes to the edge of the continental shelf, where the depth, falls away rapidly to 500mt to Continue Reading
I flew back from Poland in early March 2020, full of anticipation about sailing back to Vanuatu in May. The standing rigging (wires that hold the mast up) had reached it’s recommended 10 year life, so the mast Continue Reading